Text in italics is indicated with underscores: _italics_.
Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from
the original.
Punctuation has been corrected without note.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected as follows:
Page 7: Fren changed to Fern
Page 25: Joe changed to Jo
Page 31: DORRITT changed to DORRIT
Page 34: needlwork changed to needlework
Page 40: distresed changed to distressed
Page 41: grandfaather changed to grandfather
Page 56: hugh changed to huge